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Four Base Essence, a 3-2-4 Site.

January 28, 2013 6:04:16 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums


I have played a LOT of FE over the last two years, and frankly I didn't even think this was possible.  A buildable site with Four Base Essence.  In the interests of full disclosure I do have some mods installed (Snaking, Bridges, Large UI) but none of them impact tile layout or essence yields.

Look at this thing - in the middle of a triangle formed by an Ogre Lair, Crystal Mine and a Shard.  3-2-4.

 

 

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Reply #1 January 28, 2013 8:40:49 AM
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Do you have the Map Pack DLC?

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Reply #2 January 28, 2013 9:31:07 AM
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Yes I have the DLC.  This was a random map though.

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Reply #3 January 28, 2013 9:47:14 AM
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I had a 3-2-4 tile in my first v1.2 game as well.

Unfortuntely, I was slaughtered by the AI, and didn't have much of a chance to enjoy it.

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Reply #4 January 28, 2013 10:08:18 AM
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Nice!

 

Too bad you couldn't cast 4 enchanted hammers on a settlement there

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Reply #5 January 28, 2013 10:40:07 AM
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That's called Arcane forge

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Reply #6 January 28, 2013 10:53:18 AM
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Yes I have the DLC.  This was a random map though.

Yeah just curious because they added some new stamps for random map to the DLC.  I wonder if there was no 4 base essence until the DLC.

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Reply #7 January 28, 2013 11:11:32 AM
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Quoting abob101,
reply 7



Yes I have the DLC.  This was a random map though.




Yeah just curious because they added some new stamps for random map to the DLC.  I wonder if there was no 4 base essence until the DLC.

 

Nah it's not new.  I played a game a few weeks back where I started on a 4-3-4 spot.  It was amazing.

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Reply #8 January 28, 2013 1:44:11 PM
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4-3-4? That's insanely good. If you Oracle'd/Scrying Pool'd that up I'm not even sure what you'd spend all the essence on.

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Reply #9 January 28, 2013 5:11:58 PM
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Wildlands should each have a site like that to make conquering them more rewarding. The heads suck aside from that swamp one (+5hp for trained units) They shouldn't be common, so wildlands and maybe 1-2 random spawned ones?

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Reply #10 January 28, 2013 8:44:06 PM
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Have had a random 4 essence spot twice, some time ago... They do happen, but only on abundant resources (sets minimum resource distances to 2 tiles, so the essence boost from a shard and an ogre lair can overlap).
4 Essense cities are amazing when you happen to be playing Pariden...

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Reply #11 January 28, 2013 10:48:58 PM
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Quoting Kongdej,
reply 11
Have had a random 4 essence spot twice, some time ago... They do happen, but only on abundant resources (sets minimum resource distances to 2 tiles, so the essence boost from a shard and an ogre lair can overlap).
4 Essense cities are amazing when you happen to be playing Pariden...

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Ah so that's how it works. I remember seeing a 3 essence tile bump up to 4 essence when I cleared out an adjacent ogre lair. I wonder why ogre lairs bump up essence?

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Reply #12 January 29, 2013 5:15:39 AM
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Quoting sjaminei,
reply 10
Wildlands should each have a site like that to make conquering them more rewarding. The heads suck aside from that swamp one (+5hp for trained units) They shouldn't be common, so wildlands and maybe 1-2 random spawned ones?

Agreed. Wildlands rewards always need to seem impressive, not just some 4/3/1 site which is nice but hardly worth getting excited about mid/late game when you are clearing out wildlands.

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Reply #13 January 29, 2013 9:48:54 AM
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playing on Insane I've seen several 4 essence sites as enemy capitals, guessing that they get a couple of bonus resources adjacent to their first city.

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